American - Politician | May 29, 1736 - June 6, 1799
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
Patrick Henry
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Give me liberty or give me death.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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